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Obama orders new plan to diversify federal workers
Associated Press ^ | August 18, 2011 | SUZANNE GAMBOA

Posted on 08/18/2011 2:21:45 PM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: kabar
Hispanics can be of any race.

Right! "Hispanic" is a political designation, not an ethnic one.

161 posted on 08/19/2011 8:46:31 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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To: Puppage

Interesting.......


162 posted on 08/19/2011 10:31:23 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: mamelukesabre
The problem is, blacks are over represented and hispanics are under represented.

Yeah, but they have all those F&F automatic weapons....wait'll SoCal street gangs gets a load of them...

163 posted on 08/19/2011 11:19:39 AM PDT by 4woodenboats (Obama.....a perfect example of why you can't trust someone that won't look you in the eye)
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To: reaganaut1

Just put out the word that no more white people need apply until the fed meets its arbitrary and ever-changing goals for hiring minorities. And if they can’t find enough minorities who want to apply, just force them to. If we can all be forced to buy Obamacare, then minorities can be forced to apply for jobs they don’t want.


164 posted on 08/19/2011 11:29:48 AM PDT by American Quilter (aka American Hobbit)
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To: reaganaut1

He sure loves giving orders.

If I ever hear him say ‘Make it so’ I swear the television will be destroyed.


165 posted on 08/19/2011 12:14:22 PM PDT by SusaninOhio
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To: ottbmare

>>So much for my hope of getting a federal job.<<

These days I think I’d want something more secure.


166 posted on 08/19/2011 3:18:42 PM PDT by MeganC (Are you better off than you were four years ago?)
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To: MeganC

Beggars can’t be choosers. I want a job, I need to have one within a reasonable commute of my house, and federal jobs historically have offered great benefits. It’s also pretty tough to fire a federal worker. I’m still knocking at that door.


167 posted on 08/19/2011 4:25:42 PM PDT by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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To: reaganaut1
If you have a "compelling life story", like sneaking across the border into Arizona from Mexico, you've got a job with the federal government in the bag.

The Kenyan has got to go!

168 posted on 08/19/2011 5:22:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
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To: reaganaut1
So...it's not who is better qualified for the job but rather their race, culture, sexual perversion, color or how many dead brain cells you have?

Got it.

169 posted on 08/19/2011 7:30:51 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: reaganaut1

bump


170 posted on 08/19/2011 8:01:05 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: reaganaut1

0bama’s “Institutional Racism”.


171 posted on 08/19/2011 10:05:25 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: mojito

He thinks he can turn America into the formerly prosperous country called Rhodesia. His malevolence however, is tempered by his incompetence. The race ratios here are at least inverse to that now unfortunate place..


172 posted on 08/19/2011 10:07:53 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: icanhasbailout

http://humanresourcessouthafrica.co.za/basic-guide-to-affirmative-action-south-africa http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=32738


173 posted on 08/19/2011 10:18:55 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: reaganaut1

This diversification coupled with Affirmative Action = win! /s =.=

I have often asked that when the whites become the minority, will Affirmative Action cover them.... =.= =.=


174 posted on 08/20/2011 8:18:01 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked; All

In Obama’s Fascist Democrat Amerkka, White Christians are the New Jew.

How soon until he orders us to wear a Yellow Cross on chest, so we can be easily identified?


175 posted on 08/20/2011 8:58:32 AM PDT by tcrlaf (PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMISTS FOR OBAMA2012!)
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To: ottbmare

My guess is that this has to do with the GS11 and higher positions. How they’ll overrule the veterans preference regulations, especially for disabled veterans will be interesting. There are many more disabled younger veterans now and many overlook opportunities in the federal government.


176 posted on 08/20/2011 9:26:38 AM PDT by MSF BU (YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
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To: MSF BU

It’s not going to be easy to comply with in all federal agencies, that’s for sure—especially not in the science-based agencies.

I went to an invitation-only job fair at a major federal agency that has a strong connection to science. They were trying really hard to recruit black candidates. There were both black, white, and Asian managers, male and female. I spoke to some rather impressive black women in management positions there; naturally I couldn’t make an accurate assessment of their management skills while having a 20-minute talk with each of them, and anybody of any color can be an idiot manager you’d be miserable working for, but they seemed sharp enough. I’d bet my next house payment that there wasn’t one person there who didn’t vote for Obama.

There were quite a few black job candidates, almost all female and fairly young. They seemed like a focused and determined group. Some were nurses or former nurses. But none of them had the credentials the agency was looking for in terms of hard-science degrees or research experience.

It would be a lovely place to work, but it makes me depressed to think of having to hide my values and beliefs all day every day, as I used to have to do at my previous job. That kind of thing is exhausting, in part because you can never make any real friends among your colleagues. Because you want to keep your job and/or not be hated, you can’t exactly put up huge PALIN/PERRY 2012 posters in your office or carry your NRA-decal range bag as a purse.


177 posted on 08/20/2011 9:55:07 AM PDT by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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To: reaganaut1
George Orwell was speaking prophetically when he wrote the book ANIMAL FARM.

Some animals are more equal than others.

The left have become that in what they hate the most, the thing that they hunger for and lust for will be the very thing that will bring their own demise.
178 posted on 08/20/2011 10:13:06 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: SusaninOhio
" He sure loves giving orders. "

Just like Napoleon the pig in the George Orwell novel Animal Farm.
179 posted on 08/20/2011 10:16:00 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: ottbmare

I’m familiar with the environments at the Corps of Engineers, VA, SEC, etc. Some places are veteran friendly (the Corps is the best example I’ve seen), some blow hot and cold and some are decidedly cool. The Fed & Sec in Boston are not places that are happy to see a disabled vet apply, that I can attest to through solid second hand sources. There is a quiet but sizeable group in many agencies that not only don’t believe in veterans preference but honestly believe that military service is either nothing special or even a negative indicator. I’d be interested in chatting with somebody offline about vet preference because I’ve heard varying stories about how it can be used and really how useful it is.


180 posted on 08/20/2011 10:20:40 AM PDT by MSF BU (YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
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